Ken Watanabe
Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese Army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.
Box office. $68.7 million [2] Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion ...
- $19 million
Jan 11, 2007 · It's the companion movie to Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers." For a fraction of a second at the very beginning of Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima," you may think that you are gazing overhead at a field of stars. In fact, you are looking straight down into the ground, at waves of black sand on the volcanic island where, over the course ...
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Feb 2, 2007 · Letters from Iwo Jima: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryô Kase. The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Rent Letters From Iwo Jima on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A powerfully humanistic portrayal of the perils of war, this companion piece to Flags of ...
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- Clint Eastwood
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- Ken Watanabe
Dec 20, 2006 · Even though the movie has a blunt, emphatic emotional force, Mr. Eastwood also shows an attention to details of speech and gesture that can only be described as delicate. Hiro Abe plays the role ...
In Letters From Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood returns to the same Pacific island that served as backdrop for his war epic Flags of Our Fathers. That movie told the story of the American Marines who raised the flag that became an iconic symbol for the U.S. war effort. This one portrays the battle from the Japanese perspective—in Japanese.
